Alison Rowan RGD

Alison Rowan RGD

Hello! I’m an independent graphic designer, lettering artist, and bookworm working from my home studio just outside Toronto with my canine supervisor. I work across a broad range of projects, with particular interest in branding and book/editorial design. Beginning my freelance career in 2009, I graduated with distinction from OCAD University’s Graphic Design program with a minor in English in 2015. I love good typography, attention to detail, and any opportunity to integrate lettering or illustration into a project.

Toronto, ON

Member since August 19, 2022

Skills

• Book Design
• Branding
• Typography
• Digital Marketing
• Editorial
• Information Design
• Packaging
• Print

Walls to Bridges Branding

Walls to Bridges Branding

Walls to Bridges is an organization that brings together incarcerated/criminalized students and students enrolled at colleges/universities to study together with the mission of creating educational opportunities in correctional settings where the experiences of teaching and (un)learning challenge assumptions, stigmatization and inequality.

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Thesis: Like Pixel, Like Paper

Thesis: Like Pixel, Like Paper

This series, my OCAD University thesis, is a book lover’s exploration of how characteristics of digital texts translate to print. The resulting objects, blatantly impractical as they are, are both a concession to the robust capabilities of digital technologies that print cannot rival, and a celebration of print’s resilience and charm nonetheless.

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Calgary Airport Authority Annual Report

Calgary Airport Authority Annual Report

For the Calgary Airport Authority's annual series of reports for 2021, the objective was to create a suite of documents that would reflect the optimism and resilience of the CAA as pandemic flight impacts began to ease. This included an Annual Report, Financial Report, and ESG Report (all in both English & French versions), and AGM slidedeck.

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